From: "Ben Worthy" <b.wor...@bbk.ac.uk> Date: Jun 19, 2017 9:51 AM Subject: [opengovuk] New paper on 'Brexit and Open Government: 11 months of May' To: <opengo...@forum.opengovernment.org.uk> Cc:
Dear All, Dear All, Read my new paper on 'Brexit and Open Government: 11 months of May' free to access here https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/ papers.cfm?abstract_id=2988952 This paper examines how Brexit has influenced the UK’s transparency regime and how, Respond by replying above this line or visit http://forum.opengovernment. org.uk/conversations/982 *Did you know…* Every group has its own events calendar <http://forum.opengovernment.org.uk/groups/opengovuk/calendar>, and opengovuk has 0 upcoming events. Like this post <http://forum.opengovernment.org.uk/conversation_posts/5947e4dffa32cf00dcbb5388/like> Dear All, Dear All, Read my new paper on 'Brexit and Open Government: 11 months of May' free to access here https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2988952 This paper examines how Brexit has influenced the UK’s transparency regime and how, in turn, will openness shape the UK’s Brexit process. May’s government will be seen as one that prized secrecy but conceded openness, an object (and abject) lesson in how hard it is to keep government closed in the 21st century. The May administration 2016-2017 is likely to be remembered as a secretive one, headed by a Prime Minister that wished to govern through confidentiality and closed networks. Though there were some high profile openness policies they were inherited and proceeded slowly, if at all. Brexit reveals how badly the approach misfired. The government’s plan of no ‘running commentary’ and secrecy was undermined by the Supreme Court, the UK Parliament and the EU Commission, who all forced greater transparency and greatly limited May’s room for manoeuvre and concealment. The three institutions, creating and using ‘institution friction’ to open up government, also exposed the government’s lack of preparation and undermined the UK’s credibility and leverage even before Brexit began. Ben Lecturer in Politics Birkbeck College, University of London Email: b.wor...@bbk.ac.uk Tel: 02030738047 see http://www.bbk.ac.uk/politics/our-staff/academic/ben-worthy <https://owa.bbk.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=5GLEZUVRC0tv5q62m_Dv1Bli0wNz5YwSKLUIA0go1-EKj9gOdiLTCGgAdAB0AHAAOgAvAC8AdwB3AHcALgBiAGIAawAuAGEAYwAuAHUAawAvAHAAbwBsAGkAdABpAGMAcwAvAG8AdQByAC0AcwB0AGEAZgBmAC8AYQBjAGEAZABlAG0AaQBjAC8AYgBlAG4ALQB3AG8AcgB0AGgAeQA.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.bbk.ac.uk%2fpolitics%2four-staff%2facademic%2fben-worthy> View my research on my SSRN Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=1897482 <https://owa.bbk.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=aUrB4fUBlypCCA3lursYmjBGAPavzpPUc7rPLHcGC3EKj9gOdiLTCGgAdAB0AHAAOgAvAC8AcwBzAHIAbgAuAGMAbwBtAC8AYQB1AHQAaABvAHIAPQAxADgAOQA3ADQAOAAyAA..&URL=http%3a%2f%2fssrn.com%2fauthor%3d1897482> View my research blog: http://opendatastudy.wordpress.com <https://owa.bbk.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=VZ1thMY31njXir8jW55yEv_WGhBBHOx3JVKL3Sk_HDIKj9gOdiLTCGgAdAB0AHAAOgAvAC8AbwBwAGUAbgBkAGEAdABhAHMAdAB1AGQAeQAuAHcAbwByAGQAcAByAGUAcwBzAC4AYwBvAG0A&URL=http%3a%2f%2fopendatastudy.wordpress.com> Ben Worthy (2017) *The Politics of Freedom of Information: How and why governments pass laws that threaten their power* <http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719097676/> is published by Manchester University Press. You can read chapter 1 here <http://d2yvuud5fila0c.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/02160419/Worthy-Chapter-1.pdf> . <http://forum.opengovernment.org.uk/accounts/56bc6f24b63b4b0012d3dbfd> Ben Worthy <http://forum.opengovernment.org.uk/accounts/56bc6f24b63b4b0012d3dbfd> - Member of opengovuk <http://forum.opengovernment.org.uk/groups/opengovuk> and ogp <http://forum.opengovernment.org.uk/groups/ogp> Too many emails? Mute this conversation <http://forum.opengovernment.org.uk/conversations/982/mute>, switch to a digest <http://forum.opengovernment.org.uk/groups/opengovuk>, or turn off email notifications completely <http://forum.opengovernment.org.uk/groups/opengovuk> ―― View topic http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/7vlmk833XMO6sMXCmVeCzN Leave group mailto:newswire@groups.dowire.org?subject=Unsubscribe
